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New Book By Senior Correspondent and Health Reporter for The Arab Daily News

Posted on March 1, 2016March 8, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on New Book By Senior Correspondent and Health Reporter for The Arab Daily News

New Book by Senior Non-Arab Correspondent and Health Reporter for The Arab Daily News is a political, medical and spiritual memoir New book by Eileen Fleming began in 2013 when medical experts recommended the then 59 year old undergo bilateral total knee replacements to relieve pain due to bone on bone grinding. Instead the retired…

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Mordechai Vanunu Reports Latest News at Twitter

Posted on February 25, 2016October 30, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Mordechai Vanunu Reports Latest News at Twitter

Mordechai Vanunu reports his latest news at Twitter on Wednesday By Eileen Fleming Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower TWEETED his latest news: @VanunuMordechai Feb 24 The latest news. The Supreme court had order the Prosecutors,To gave their answer on this case,no late than Apr’21s. With the publication of Heroes, Muses and the Saga of…

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BDS Activists Combat BDS ACT of 2016

Posted on February 25, 2016September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on BDS Activists Combat BDS ACT of 2016

The Combatting BDS Act of 2016 seeks to encourage and authorize state legislation to divest state funds from companies that boycott Israel. By Eileen Fleming The Combatting BDS Act of 2016 [S. 2531/H.R. 4514] was introduced on 10 February 2016. On Tuesday in Colorado human rights activists seized their First Amendment rights to enlighten their…

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Senior Correspondent: 7th Book and Bookend

Posted on February 21, 2016February 21, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Senior Correspondent: 7th Book and Bookend

Senior Non-Arab Correspondent for The Arab Daily News seventh book is the bookend to her first; Inspired by a 1948 Palestinian Muslim refugee who responded to 911 by establishing The Olive Trees Foundation for Peace. Eileen Fleming explains: Before the events of 11 September 2001, I was an apolitical privileged American who had embarked upon…

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OEWG and Mordechai Vanunu’s Valentines Update

Posted on February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on OEWG and Mordechai Vanunu’s Valentines Update

OEWG stands for Open Ended Working Group By Eileen Fleming On Monday 22 February, world governments have the opportunity to participate in the Open Ended Working Group “taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations” in Geneva, Switzerland. Through resolution 67/56 the UN General Assembly decided in December 2012, to convene an OEWG to develop proposals for…

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Abrahamic Reunion at the Golan Heights and #AllLiesMatter @billmaher

Posted on February 2, 2016April 13, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Abrahamic Reunion at the Golan Heights and #AllLiesMatter @billmaher

The Abrahamic Reunion joined musician James Twyman for peace in Syria at the border of Israel on Monday. By Eileen Fleming The Abrahamic Reunion is a group of spiritual leaders–Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze who have been working together for over a decade promoting inter religious harmony in the Holy Land. On February 1st James Twyman…

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Want Peace: Give Mindful Loving-Kindness a Chance

Posted on January 30, 2016January 30, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Want Peace: Give Mindful Loving-Kindness a Chance

Mindful Loving-Kindness reaps peace within and undergirds the curriculum in the social media “Peace Ambassador Training 2.0” course. By Eileen Fleming On 13 January 2016, over 180 global citizens from over twenty countries such as Pakistan, Turkey, Bosnia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Ireland, Germany, Australia and America united in a twelve week “Peace Ambassador Training 2.0” online…

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Revolution and Pieces of Peace

Posted on January 17, 2016April 29, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Revolution and Pieces of Peace

“The Revolution starts now, when you rise above your fear and tear the walls round you down.”-Steve Earle By Eileen Fleming “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures” as President John F. Kennedy said. Pieces of Peace include a state of tranquility…

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Gratitude, Missions, Departures and History’s sake

Posted on January 5, 2016January 5, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments on Gratitude, Missions, Departures and History’s sake

With gratitude to YOU for reading this Senior Non-Arab Correspondent for USA’s The Arab Daily News this post serves as my Leave of Absence Notice. By Eileen Fleming When my baby brother James A. Kasmir died by suicide last February, I embarked upon a mission to help end the stigma of mental illness in the…

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Jesus, Muhammad, MLK and We Have a Dream

Posted on December 27, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Jesus, Muhammad, MLK and We Have a Dream

 “I have a dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was echoed at Saturday’s historic uniting of Christianity and Islam on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial By Eileen Fleming A dream for many materialized on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Christmas Saturday, presented by The American Muslim Institution and the All Dulles…

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Mordechai Vanunu’s Christmas Update and Thirty-year Wait for Freedom from Israel

Posted on December 23, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Mordechai Vanunu’s Christmas Update and Thirty-year Wait for Freedom from Israel

Mordechai Vanunu’s Christmas Update was TWEETED on Wednesday and this reporter notes Vanunu’s 30 year wait for freedom from Israel. By Eileen Fleming Mordechai Vanunu’s Christmas Update TWEET included this wedding photo collage: Vanunu Mordechai ‏@VanunuMordechai  Merry Christmas,and a Very Happy new year 2016. Freedom of speech and Freedom of movement.2016 Freedom year. On 30…

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Christ Consciousness and Christmas Cries

Posted on December 22, 2015December 27, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Christ Consciousness and Christmas Cries

Two millennia ago Jesus embodied the Christ Consciousness. This year’s Christmas cries from the Holy Land come by way of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from his annual Christmas press conference: In a few days we will celebrate the birth of Christ; Christmas, the mystery of the Incarnation, the mystery of the Eternal Word who…

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HaaretzQ Conference Addresses US Israel Special Relationship

Posted on December 14, 2015December 15, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on HaaretzQ Conference Addresses US Israel Special Relationship

On Sunday at the HaaretzQ conference in New York, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power admitted that Israel’s, “Continued settlement growth raises questions about Israel’s long-term objectives… By Eileen Fleming On Sunday December 13th at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, HaaretzQ with New Israel Fund Conference engaged an Israeli-American discussion about our…

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Daesh: Social Media War on ISIS and BS

Posted on December 7, 2015December 8, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Daesh: Social Media War on ISIS and BS

Daesh is another word for ISIS and an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham meaning Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. By Eileen Fleming ISIS militants hate the word Daesh because “it is similar to the Arabic words ‘Daes’, ‘one who crushes something underfoot’ and ‘Dahes’, translated as ‘one who sows…

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Nuclear Disarmament, Twitter and The Absurd

Posted on December 4, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Nuclear Disarmament, Twitter and The Absurd

Calls for Nuclear Disarmament advances at UN and Twitter. By Eileen Fleming Middle East Nuclear Disarmament gained steam on Wednesday when the UN General Assembly adopted a draft resolution on the Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East (A/69/436 [L.1]), without a vote! However, in a vote on the Prohibition…

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War on Christmas, Liberation Theology and Yogi Jesus

Posted on December 1, 2015December 27, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments on War on Christmas, Liberation Theology and Yogi Jesus

In support of a war on Christmas of ungodly commercialism, greed and willful ignorance; Liberation Theology and “The Yoga of Jesus” present us with great gifts for the self that could bless all others. By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday from Jerusalem a call for a war on Christmas as celebrated in the west came by…

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VanunuLeaks, ISIS and Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

Posted on November 21, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on VanunuLeaks, ISIS and Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

On Thursday a study by ISIS the US based Institute for Science and International Security reported, “Israel developed its first nuclear weapon shortly before the 1967 Six Day War” corroborating an LBJ ‘VanunuLeak’ to this American in 2005. By Eileen Fleming David Albright is a Physicist and President of the non-profit Institute for Science and…

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IMAGINE a Thanksgiving of Real Peace: Paix, Salaam, Shalom

Posted on November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on IMAGINE a Thanksgiving of Real Peace: Paix, Salaam, Shalom

Thanksgiving season took a left to the liver on Friday night in the worst peacetime attack in France since World War Two. By Eileen Fleming Friday night in France three Islamic State jihadist cells coordinated near simultaneous attacks in bars, a concert hall and soccer stadium in unconscionable acts of revenge for French military action…

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